Have you ever been to one of those collaborative exhibitions such as Five Squared or tripARTite where the artists make quilts to certain size specifications so they neatly fit in with each other? I don’t know how they do it! For the past little while I have been working on an entry for the Down […]
Technique:Design
Cross that?
With Easter upon us, it’s time to make Hot Cross Buns again. Here’s some that my sister Chantel made yesterday: Rummaging through my stash for the Gees Bend Challenge, I came across these cross blocks that I started, and abandoned, last year: Admittedly the blocks are intended for a bright children’s quilt, but I am […]
Sunset Strata
I’ve enjoyed Alison’s series of March posts “Anatomy of a Commission” and thought I would do something similar with my experimentation with the layering technique set out in Ineke Berlyn’s book. First I reviewed some photos from my recent trip to Western Australia and cropped a slice from one of the Indian Ocean sunset shots: […]
White Out
A while ago, I mentioned my purchase of the book Landscape in Contemporary Quilts by Ineke Berlyn. What a fabulous read! One thing that struck me as I admire Ineke’s quilts is her use of white and nearly white fabrics. Not just as clouds, sea foam or snow but as buildings, sunrays, yacht sails and […]
Theory & practice
Thank you to Sarah Ann Smith for her informative review of A Lively Guide to Design Basics for Artists and Craftspeople by Steven Aimone. I’d heard about this book on the quiltart list but now I have pulled out the credit card to actually buy it: As a quiltmaker with no artistic background and no […]
Homeward Bound
When I showed my sister my baby quilt-in-progress, she reminded me that her friends had expressed a preference for the colour red. Mmm, I really quite like the colour red, not that you would know it from looking in my stash where it is strangely limited in appearance. In a flash of inspiration (my sisters […]
